Research Article
The Relationship between Ischemic Stroke Patients with and without Retroflex Tongue: A Retrospective Study
Table 1
The basic data of ischemic stroke patients between retroflex tongue and nonretroflex tongue groups.
| | Variable | Retroflex tongue | value | | With | Without |
| | Gender, (%) | | | 0.121 | | Male, (%) | 115 (62.2) | 87 (70.7) | | | Female, (%) | 70 (37.8) | 46 (29.3) | | | Comorbidity | | | | | DM, (%) | 76 (41.1) | 50 (40.7) | 0.940 | | HTN, (%) | 148 (80.0) | 103 (83.7) | 0.408 | | Hyperlipidemia, (%) | 100 (54.1) | 60 (48.8) | 0.364 | | First time stroke, (%) | 149 (80.5) | 93 (75.6) | 0.393 | | Tongue deviation, (%) | 35 (18.9) | 24 (19.5) | 0.897 | | Age, mean (SD) | 68.0 (12.8) | 70.4 (10.5) | 0.085 | | Weight, mean (SD) | 63.7 (13.5) | 64.1 (12.1) | 0.792 | | Height, mean (SD) | 1.6 (0.1) | 1.6 (0.1) | 0.697 | | BMI, mean (SD) | 24.3 (4.1) | 24.4 (4.0) | 0.825 | | HbA1C (%), mean (SD) | 7.0 (2.1) | 6.8 (2.0) | 0.529 | | Total cholesterol (mg/dL), mean (SD) | 184.8 (42.9) | 174.3 (44.5) | 0.071 | | Triglyceride (mg/dL), mean (SD) | 123.3 (78.2) | 121.3 (97.4) | 0.859 | | HDL (mg/dL), mean (SD) | 39.6 (17.4) | 44.7 (26.1) | 0.465 |
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Student’s t-test and Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test.
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